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WNBA Reaches Verbal Deal With Players Union After Tense Talks
The basketball during the opening tipoff during a game at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.
Photographer: Steph Chambers/Getty ImagesThe WNBA and its players union agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement that will avoid the first work stoppage in the ascendant league’s history and major disruption to a season that starts in about two months.
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, WNBPA executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson and four members of the WNBPA executive committee shared the news with reporters in the lobby of a midtown Manhattan hotel in the early hours of Wednesday. Multiple people close to the matter confirmed a deal has been reached.